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In the United States, drug-eluting stents are FDA-approved for the coronary arteries but not for infrapopliteal arteries.
RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News 2009
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"Multicenter randomized trials are necessary to support these promising results and build on the level of clinical evidence supporting the integral value of infrapopliteal drug-eluting stents in critical limb ischemia treatment," he added.
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Researchers from a single center studied 103 patients in a double-arm prospective registry who had critical limb ischemia and who underwent infrapopliteal revascularization with angioplasty and placement of either a drug-eluting stent (with sirolimus, an immunosuppressant drug) or a bare-metal stent (without a drug coating).
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Surgical bypass remains the mainstream therapy for blocked infrapopliteal arteries, but multiple comorbidities such as diabetes, ischemic nephrophathy, and coronary disease eliminate surgery for up to half of critical leg ischemia patients.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009
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The registry study included 122 limbs in 103 patients treated for critical limb ischemia -- initially with infrapopliteal angioplasty revascularization, and then a stent as bailout when that failed.
MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009
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XVG for infrapopliteal vessels, saphenous vein graphs, & native coronary vessels.
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Also at TCT, Dr. Ragu Patlola, of Regional Acadiana in Lafayette, Louisiana, presented an abstract on a 150-patient, randomized, single-center study comparing treatment using the Diamondback 360˚ with angioplasty in infrapopliteal arteries.
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The use of drug-eluting stents in the tiny infrapopliteal arteries of the leg may significantly impact their care, "said Dimitris Karnabatidis, M.D.
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The use of drug-eluting stents in the tiny infrapopliteal arteries of the leg may significantly impact their care, "said Dimitris Karnabatidis, M.D., assistant professor of interventional radiology at Patras University Hospital in Rion, Greece.
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